High-power bursts of light from femtosecond system are being honed for new compact particle accelerators. An ultrafast laser system under development at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL) in California has delivered ...
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Suntech Power Holdings today announced that its solar modules have passed the blowing sand test based on DIN EN 60068-2-68 LC2 by SGS, an inspection, verification, testing and Certification Company. The SGS test result confirms that ...
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With the Mars Curiosity rover's science instruments working well, NASA engineers are getting ready for two big tests of their robotic rover -- blasting a rock with a laser beam and getting the rover moving. Curiosity's first drive will be ...
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NASA's Mars Curiosity rover wiggled its wheels Tuesday and is ready to make its first -- if brief -- test drive on Wednesday. As part of a series of major tests that have been running over the past several days, the robotic rover on ...
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Ophthalmic Devices Advisory Panel has scheduled to review the data presented in the Second Sight Medical Products' humanitarian device exemption (HDE) market approval application, for its Argus II ...
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ImThera Medical has announced positive results of its aura6000 targeted hypoglossal neurostimulation (THN) sleep therapy system, designed to treat obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). The device includes two implantable components, a ...
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QUANTEL Medical has entered into a collaboration agreement to license IRIDEX's proprietary noninvasive tissue-sparing laser delivery therapy, designed for treating sight-threatening diseases of the eye including complications associated ...
. The government has modified the Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules 2011, following complaints regarding unfair reduction in the quantity of packaged products from some consumer organisation, PTI said. Expected to come into ...
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Far and away the most dangerous part of any car is the pink squishy thing sitting behind the steering wheel.Human error is the cause of almost all vehicle crashes,which according to the World Health Organisation claim the lives of ...
EndoStim has received CE mark approval for its LES Stimulation system, designed to treat gastro-esophageal reflux disease (GERD) and eliminate the need for daily proton pump inhibitor (PPI) medication. By using low energy electrical ...
Matt Albright, Product Manager, The Lincoln Electric Company Today's manufacturers face a daunting challenge: running a production line that not only delivers quality product on time and on budget but also meets various demands for energy ...
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TATA Steel has invested almost GBP 1.5 million in new technology to improve the quality of the steel bar and wire rod output at its Rotherham and Scunthorpe works in the UK. New quality control technology has been installed to improve ...
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The new technology can feed a number of parallel optical data streams into a single fiber IBM has developed a new chip which will use light rather than electrical signals to transmit the data for future computing speeding up internet data ...
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Boston Scientific has obtained CE mark approval for its spinal cord stimulator(SCS)system with 32 contacts and 32 dedicated power sources. The Precision Spectra system,which has four lead ports offering more coverage of the spinal cord,is ...
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Singer Valve launches the 6 in and 8 in single rolling diaphragm Singer Valve,a manufacturer of control valves is now offering its single rolling diaphragm(SRD)pressure reducing valve in 6 in/150 mm and 8 in/200 mm sizes.According to ...
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